Heads up for Mac OS X 10.3 users: Silk (http://www.unsanity.com) has
finally been updated, so you can have Quartz text smoothing in
Mathematica again.
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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
On Oct 29, 2003, at 3:34 AM, Selwyn Hollis wrote:
> I've convinced myself that the problem is nothing new to Panther or
> Mathematica 5.0. I had been using a "haxie" named Silk
> (http://www.unsanity.com) to enable Quartz text smoothing in Carbon
> apps, and it no longer works in Panther. Supposedly an update of Silk
> is forthcoming soon.
>
> And with any luck a Cocoa version of the Mathematica front end will
> happen in our lifetime. (?)
>
> BTW, Panther is well worth the upgrade.
>
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> Selwyn Hollis
> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
>
> On Oct 26, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Selwyn Hollis wrote:
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>> I've just installed Mac OS X 10.3, and I was horrified to find that
>> font smoothing no longer works in Mathematica 5.0. Any type smaller
>> than 18 points looks dreadful. I wonder if others are having the same
>> experience. To be fair, I'm also seeing the same problem (no surprise)
>> in Microsoft Word.
>>
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>> Selwyn Hollis
>> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
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